Giant sea signs exist under the Earth's crust

In the March 12 issue of Nature, Canadian scientists say they have discovered an extremely rare mineral that has shown the existence of a giant sea of ​​water under the Earth's crust, far away. where we live 400 - 600km.

This discovery makes scientists think of the mysterious images that French fictional scientist Jules Verne described in his "journey to the heart of the Earth" 150 years ago.

Ringwoodite.(Photo: systematic-mineralogy.com)

Scientists believe that the mysterious sea of ​​water could contain the same amount of water as all the oceans on the current planet.

There is evidence that the existence of this sea of ​​water is due to a mineral called ringwoodite . This name was coined after Australian geologist Ted Ringwood concluded a hypothesis that there must be a special mineral formed in the interference zone between the upper and lower layers of the lower Earth crust. Extreme pressure and extremely high temperatures there.

The analysis showed that 1.5% of this mineral layer contains water molecules. However, so far, ringwoodite has only been found in meteorites.

According to geologists, we have not enough technology and techniques to dig deep enough to be able to find any such mineral samples on Earth.